Maryland Chapter

Monocacy Orchard

This orchard was founded in 2007 and is located at the Jehovah-Jireh Farm on DNR property.  The trees were inoculated in 2012 and several subsequent years.  Roguing of the inferior trees is almost complete.

Address:
7033 Ed Sears Rd., Dickerson, Frederick Co.

Directions:
From Rt. 270 at Urbana, take Rt. 80 west for about a mile to a left on Park Mills Rd. Take Park Mills for 5.3 miles to a right turn onto Ed Sears Rd (just before the Monocacy River bridge). Follow Ed Sears Rd. for about a mile to its end at the gate to the Jehovah Jirah farm. Take the farm drive for about a quarter mile. The orchard will be on your right above the sheep pasture. You can drive to the orchard gate or into the orchard.  Note: See the Google map below.

Contacts:
Ron Kuipers – steward
Myron Horst – Jehovah-Jirah Farm
Phil Pannil – DNR

Plantings:   Br96-106 and Green1A are Clapper crosses, the remaining are Musick.

 

 

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Join the VA chapter for a science presentation, orchard tour and seed give away! This meeting is open to the public and will take place on December 6th at Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve from 1pm-4pm.
Stop by and get some free wild-type American chestnut seeds!
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Join the VA chapter for a science presentation, orchard tour and seed give away! This meeting is open to the public and will take place on December 6th at Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve from 1pm-4pm.Stop by and get some free wild-type American chestnut seeds!

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What kind of American chestnut seeds?

Very cool! Have fun everyone who can go!

their is one kind only

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Someday hope there will be enough trees to give chestnuts to make dressing.

Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁🥧🦃🍂

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I believe I have a few resistant chestnut trees that have produced their second crop of seeds . They are descendants of those once in living in .Valley Garden Park

The American Chestnut Foundation. If we don't figure out the tree of heaven problem then we won't have anything but ailanthus altissima and your research will be a waste.

Send me few, I'll plant them

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Holiday cheer is brewing! 🎄🍺 TACF staff joined Sweetbay Brewing’s Patrick Atkins in Abingdon, VA, as he demonstrated how Meadowview-ground American chestnut seeds are being used to craft a rich brown ale for our Chestnuts Roasting & Christmas Market celebration on December 13. Join us for local flavor, music, and chestnut-inspired holiday fun! #AmericanChestnut #SweetbayBrewing #ChestnutsRoasting #HolidayCheers #MeadowviewResearchFarms #AbingdonVA #ForestRestoration

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